2nd most-quoted character in 28 Days Later (2002): in 23 of its 66 quotes
Most scenes with: Jim (13), Mark (3), Hannah (3)
A line from Selena
Plans are pointless. Staying alive is as good as it gets.
More lines from Selena
6 quotes
Selena It started off as rioting. But right from the beginning you knew this was different, because it was happening in small villages, market towns... and then it wasn't on TV anymore. It was on the street outside. It was coming through your windows. It was a virus, an infection. You didn't need a doctor to tell you that. It was the blood, or something in the blood. By the time they tried to evacuate the cities, it was already too late. The infection was everywhere. The army blockades were overrun, and that's when the exodus started. The day before the TV stopped broadcasting, there were reports of infection in Paris and New York. You didn't hear anything more after that.
Selena [On finding an abandoned, and full, supermarket]
Let's shop!
Selena [After fending off the soliders by kissing one of them, thus changing the balance of power]
If you want us to get changed, you have to leave the room. Okay? It's just polite.
Selena [Last line]
Do you think he saw us that time?
Selena And that stuff about the answer to infection -- I mean, there is no answer to infection! It's already done pretty much all the damage they can!
Selena [regarding Hannah]
I don't want her to have to **** cope! I want her to be okay. When Hannah had her dad it was okay. It was okay for them and it was okay for us. Now it's all just ****...
Scenes with Selena
16 scenes
A man walks into a bar with a giraffe. They both get pissed. The giraffe falls over. The man goes to leave and the barman says, "Oi. You can't leave that lyin' there." And the man says, "No. It's not a lion. It's a giraffe."
[Jim doesn't respond]
Completely humorless. You two should get on like a house on fire.
Selena So who are you? You're from the hospital.
Selena He's not a doctor he's a patient.
I'm a bicycle courier. I was riding a package from Farringdon to Shaftesbury Avenue and a car cut across me. And I wake up today in hospital. I wake up and I'm... I'm hallucinating or I'm...
I'm Mark. This is Selena. Ok, Jim. I've got some bad news.
What about the government? What are they doing?
Selena There's no government.
Of course there's a government! There's always a government! They're in a, a bunker or a plane.
No. There's no government. No army. No police. No TV, no radio, no electricity. You're the first uninfected person we've seen in six days.
[Jim wants to go and look for his parents.]
Look, I have to find them. They live in Deptford. I can walk it, okay?
Selena What, you'll go and come back, yeah?
Selena You won't! No one ever comes back.
So, lesson one: you never go anywhere alone unless you've got no choice. Lesson two: only travel during daylight unless you've got no choice. We'll take you tomorrow. We'll all go and find your dead parents together, okay?
[Shortly after Selena has killed the newly infected Mark.]
How did you know? I mean, how did you know he was infected?
Selena The blood.
Yeah... but there was blood everywhere. It was on me, it was on you —
Selena Look, I didn't know he was infected, okay? He knew. I could see it in his face. Look, if someone gets infected you've got between ten and twenty seconds to kill them. It might be your brother or your sister or your oldest friend. It makes no difference. And just so you know where you stand — if it happens to you, I'll do it in a heartbeat.
Selena What's up?
Selena Bad?
Selena Well, why didn't you say anything before?
Well, because I didn't think you'd give a shit.
[Selena and Jim are staying at the flat of an uninfected father and daughter.]
So, what do you make of them?
Selena Well, they're desperate. Probably need us more than we need them.
I think they're good people.
Selena Good people?
Selena Well, that's nice. but you should be more concerned about whether or not they're gonna slow you down.
Right. Because if they slowed you down —
Selena I'd leave them behind.
Selena Yeah.
Selena Then you're gonna wind up getting yourself killed.
You think I don't get it, but, um, I do get it. And I know I'd be dead already if I hadn't met you.
Selena Sure.
No, look... I mean, thank you.
Selena And I mean "sure."
: I can't leave the block if it's just the two of us. Something might happen to me. Hannah'd be alone. I couldn't risk it. But with other people...
Selena We could die trying, Frank.
[entering]
Or die here. And anyway, it isn't true, what Dad said. You need us the same as we need you. We need each other. And we'll never be safe in cities. The soldiers could keep us safe. So we have to try and get there.
[Everyone has trouble sleeping — except Selena, already fast asleep.] [shaking Selena's shoulder]
Hey, Selena!
Selena [startles up, knife in hand]
What? What is it?
How did you get to sleep?
Do you know what I was thinking?
Selena You were thinking that you'll never hear another piece of original music, ever again. You'll never read a book that hasn't already been written or see a film that hasn't already been shot.
Um, that's what you were thinking.
Selena No. I was thinking I was wrong.
Selena All the death, all the shit, it doesn't really matter to Frank and Hannah, because... well, she's got a dad and he's got his daughter. So I was wrong when I said staying alive is as good as it gets.
See, that's what I was thinking.
Selena Was it?
Mm-hmm. You stole my thought.
Selena [she kisses him on the cheek]
Sorry.
[After Frank has been killed, referring to Hannah.]
How is she?
Selena [bitter chuckle]
Well, she's lost her dad, Jim. That's how she is.
[Selena is crying.]
Hey, don't do that. Look, Hannah is what Frank said she is. She's tough and she's strong. And she'll cope, just like I'll cope and just like you'll cope.
Selena I don't want her to have to **** cope! I want her to be okay.
Selena [Facing rape and brutalization from the soliders, Selena is trying to give Hannah some pills]
Okay, you're gonna eat these, Hannah, okay? Come on, you eat these. Eat these.
Are you trying to kill me?
Selena No, sweetheart. I'm making you not care.
Selena [Hannah, seeing Jim and Selena in a clinch, rushes in and breaks a bottle on Jim's head.]
Hannah! It's okay. He's not infected.
But I thought he was biting you.
I was kissing her! Are you stoned?
Selena It's a long story.
Selena We've got enough food, Jim.
We don't have any cheeseburgers. [to himself] Like going on holiday with your ****in' aunt...
Selena [Jim's group come across the military barricade and find it completely abandoned.]
Frank. Frank.
Selena Yeah.
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